Hey - I've got my son with me for a week of "work experience" at home! Rather than watch me video conferencing and tapping at the keyboard, we're going to attempt to construct a micro-enterprise in one week from Idea to Customer. You can follow our project @stage3 (awaiting a real name) PHOTALITARIAN.
Have you done anything like this? Any hints or tips?
Our idea is a quick-and-easy site to create and order a photo product (should be doable in a week as I already have some experience with print products).
Question: For $14.95 delivered, would you buy:
A: 24+ page pocket book of your best photos (A6)
B: 24 fun photo stickers to stick everywhere (6cm)
C: 9 clingy photo magnets for your fridge or car or grandma (5cm)
D: none of the above (eurgh)
Bonus points: why or why not?
UPDATE DAY 2
Thanks all for your input - moving onto Day 2 - we've decided to concentrate on pocket-sized photo-books under our new name....
.. wait for it. ...
... drum roll ...
I still have trouble spelling it right. It's live now as we work on it. Have a go, let us know! (it's not too exciting yet...)
UPDATE DAY 3
Well, we've managed to scrape together some borrowed components to make a basic book photo selector and preview and almost checkout. You can just about buy a book but not quite - need to sort out the Stripe integration! You can try it live! The invisible back end of actually constructing and printing the book are still conceptual.
UPDATE DAY 4
Stripe is integrated and the big news is that you can actually buy a book now! It's still a bit rough around the edges and we're smoothing them over now - improved book editor, preview and purchase experiences!
I would choose option A.
I like projects with hard/quick deadlines. Helps to stay focused and ship something by the end. Little time to overthink. And remember you can always tweak and make better after launch.
A time limit like this is an awesome way to ensure you build something useful! The constraint will likely help you accomplish more shipped product in a week than you could in much more time.
I've done very rapid launches of my own and helped a couple of clients go from zero to launch in a week. You can absolutely get revenue this week. Based on my experiences, a few thoughts:
Of your options, I would be most prone to C. I'm not into stickers, and photo books mostly sit on the shelf. It might be interesting if I could pay more for larger-format photos delivered as really high-quality posters (even better if you frame it).
Good luck!
Awesome thanks Nako.
This is our line of thinking too: cut cut cut to the bare minimum and then leverage other people's work wherever we can. Luckily we can draw on the PixxiBook experience and infrastructure to some degree which I hope will give us an advantage.
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